Eleanour Sinclair Rohde Quotes

Red was the colour sacred to Thor and it was also the colour abhorred not only by witches in particular but by all the powers of darkness and evil.

Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

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• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Hate

• I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

  

  Kanye West
  • Family
  • Black
  • Hate

• When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • People
  • Future
  • Lost

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • First
  • Will
  • Direction

• I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Relationship
  • Friend
  • Speak

• The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

  

  Maimonides
  • Reason
  • Human
  • Limit

• Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Happy
  • Stick
  • Needle

• Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say and what you think.

  

  Umar
  • Thinking
  • Trust
  • Differences

• If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Science
  • Religion
  • inspirational

• If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • People
  • Forgiveness
  • Hearts

• I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Die
  • Move
  • Not Afraid

• Over the past decade or so, you have seen the flip side of that as you've seen stock prices have come down a lot relative to gold. Now you are getting a change where people are more comfortable holding gold because in the rear-view mirror it doesn't look so bad for gold. Bonds have not come down as much relative to gold, but I think the bond bubble is going to burst and will be falling for years too. And gold will look that much better.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Past

• The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • War
  • Maintenance

• Marx makes it not aphoristically but by implication. The censorship is not only a police measure, “but it is even a bad police measure, for it does not achieve what it wants and does not want what it achieves.” It succeeds only in adding the allure of martyrdom and mystery to the victims of censorship.

  

  Hal Draper
  • Marx
  • Implication
  • Aphoristically

• Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Eternal

• The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Tree

• Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Children
  • Society
  • Seek

• God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • God
  • Living
  • Standard

• I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Light
  • Ignorance
  • Firsts

• We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Feeling
  • Imagination
  • Intelligence

• Red was the colour sacred to Thor and it was also the colour abhorred not only by witches in particular but by all the powers of darkness and evil.

  

  Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
  • Darkness
  • Sacred
  • Powers